After four weeks, I think we’re finally learning what this season is. Scoring is down, and nobody knows why. The growing consensus is that the league is lacking in starting veteran QBs. For one reason or another, the league came into this season is starting just eight QBs over the age of 30 (and that’s if you include Brissett). Just two years ago, it was 12. For the entire 2010s, and probably before that, that number was hovering around 15. The simple explanation is that teams are locked in on finding franchise QBs, and the success paths of today’s franchise QBs are obscuring that path. The last QB to be drafted #1 overall to go on to be unequivocally that dude was Andrew Luck back in 2012. The best QBs in the game were drafted 7th, 10th, 32nd, fucking last, fucking dead-last pick in the draft Brock Purdy. Jalen Hurts and Dak Prescott were Day 2 picks. The best #1 overall pick since Andrew Luck was…Kyler Murray six years ago? In the sense of playoff success, Jared Goff? (A little caveat here is that CJ Stroud should have been the #1 pick last year, like literally the Panthers GM and head coach wanted to pick him, but the owner overruled them.) Baker Mayfield was always a strong pick, but he’s also a cautionary tale of what poor organizational structure in one’s first job can do to their career trajectory.
When you look at the top picks of recent years, you see teams leaning toward dual threats. Daniel Jones was drafted over Dwayne Haskins for this reason. Trey Lance was drafted 3rd overall because his tape against D-2 defenses made him look like Josh Allen, and North Dakota is basically Wyoming, right? Zach Wilson’s tape drew Mahomes comparisons (dark times during the pandemic). Kenny Pickett had one fucking rushing highlight, and the Steelers spent a 1st on him.
In that absolutely dead draft, the next two QBs taken were Desmond Ridder and Malik Willis in the third round because teams figured, hey, that running threat alone should open windows for us. (Plus Malik can fucking rip it, shame he landed on that Titans team that never had any plan to develop him.) Matt Corral and Sam Howell were, like, discount Mayfields teams could take later. And then the 49ers just wait and wait and wait and take a total flier on Brock Purdy, boom, Super Bowl.
But if we’re looking for a throughline, it has nothing to do with the talent of the QB, really. I mean, there’s a baseline, probably, but there’s enough talent available that the baseline is irrelevant. Good QBs tend to emerge on teams with good plans to develop them. It’s the overall organizational structure. How competent and patient and in sync are the coaches, GMs, and owners?
This is where we have to talk about Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels. Why is generational prospect Caleb Williams struggling while one-year wonder Jayden Daniels is thriving? Because despite the overwhelming Caleb Williams hype, their talent level isn’t all that different. It just isn’t. Caleb can make more throws, especially to the left, but he can’t move like Daniels can at all. And it’s not even that Daniels can’t make throws to his left. It’s that he doesn’t have much experience having to make backside reads. This is similar to the knock on Justin Fields as a rookie. The Bears worked really hard to develop that aspect of Fields’ game, but the owner got impatient. The Bears showed solid improvement from 2022 to 2023, winning four more games, they scored two more points per game, and they allowed five fewer points per game. If they had just followed that trajectory, they would probably be a playoff team this year, even in that insane division. They have a top ten defense, but the offense isn’t very good. Their offensive coordinator from last year went to the Raiders, who are better than Chicago in every offensive metric despite the discrepancy in roster talent (notably the Raiders have a legitimate LT and C, which the Bears do not, at all). Luke Getsy is a good offensive coordinator! Justin Fields is a good quarterback! The Bears are a bad franchise! Meanwhile, Jayden Daniels is breaking rookie records running the same offense Caleb Williams ran at USC last year. The new ownership in Washington understands how to run a professional sports team from experience in the NHL and NBA. They brought in coaches with proven success doing what was needed in order to get this franchise back on its feet. Dan Quinn can coach up his defense. He can move guys around and put them where they need to be to have success. Jayden Daniels is basically a taller Kyler Murray, so Kliff Kingsbury can definitely work with that.
I’m not saying it’s over for Williams, but man, it doesn’t look good. Do you understand that D’Andre Swift had more yards than Caleb Williams on Sunday? Against a Rams defense with, like, three guys who would start on other rosters. And the Bears were only able to feed Swift because Matt Stafford kept turning the ball over. Williams was able to finish with a solid 17/23 completion rate, but almost half of that was baby routes to Swift. His longest pass completed to a WR was 10 yards. Last week Caleb had two 40-yard completions to WRs, but he also threw the ball 30 more times, turned the ball over three times, and took four sacks. The week before that it was a long of 27, two picks, and seven sacks. It’s yikes, is what it is.
But so we can start figuring out who is good and bad by what they are doing at the most important position in all of sports.
Arizona is scripting their first drive nicely each game, but their defense is awful, and the offense is so far pretty terrible at playing from behind in the second half. Why is the offense bad at playing from behind? Because Kyler Murray is too small to exploit the middle of the field as a runner or a thrower. I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but that’s the glaring issue.
Atlanta fired all their coaches, brought in all the Rams’ coaches not named McVay, signed Kirk Cousins to a huge deal, and spent a high pick on Michael Penix. Everyone was shocked, like this isn’t the fucking formula to finding your franchise QB? This is two kinds of finding your franchise QB perfectly aligned. Perfectly. Aligned. You have competency at owner, GM, HC, and OC, and you have a veteran QB who completely understands the game.
Baltimore reinvented themselves two times over to build this thing around Lamar, and he has already two MVPs. (Important sidenote: Joe Flacco is not the veteran QB you want if you’re developing a young player, but it was good for Lamar to have to beat out an established starter with a history of success. It was good for everyone’s confidence, except for Joe Flacco.)
Buffalo traded for Diggs because Allen needed one guy he was confident would catch the ball. Once he showed confidence in Kincaid and Shakir (and others, to an extent), Diggs became expendable. Without the diva shit, they are free to pound the rock, spread and shred, rinse and repeat. (Don’t read too much into the Ravens game for fantasy, but do temper your expectations for Bills’ fantasy players in their future matchups against the Chiefs and 49ers.)
Carolina fumbled the bag so hard when they traded for the #1 pick last year. Losing DJ Moore and the ninth overall pick in 2023 and the eighth overall pick in 2024 is bad enough, but then you take Bryce Young, who’s like Kyler Murray without the velocity (arm and legs), and you tank the fucking franchise. Now, Dave Canales is the QB whisperer, but Bryce Young just doesn’t fucking have it. Because the seamy underbelly of these McVay/Shanny offenses is that you’re going to take some serious fucking hits. It is clear from what we’ve seen with Dalton that Canales has the goods and that the Panthers’ offense is not just good but great for fantasy because they can play from behind, and they are going to be playing from behind A LOT.
Chicago beefed their offensive coordinator position, just plain beefed it. Had a chance to hire Kingsbury and didn’t. Brought in the guy who couldn’t hack it once Canales moved on from Seattle to Tampa. You fuck up your QB plan this early, and it’s hard to get it back. Look at what has happened to great QBs with improper infrastructure: Jameis, Goff, Baker, Darnold, Tua, Herbert, Lawrence, Fields… that’s only going back to 2015, these guys have been gods, and they have been jokes. Meanwhile our proper infrastructure young guys like Mahomes, Allen, Jackson, Stroud, Purdy, and Burrow (you could even include Hurts) are mostly just thriving. The Bears can un-fuck this situation, but it would take a seriously sharp hire at offensive coordinator because they should not fuck up what Eberflus is doing by bringing in a successful OC to be their head coach. The Chicago Bears have to be able to run the ball and play good defense. Their weather requires it. This offensive coordinator has yet to prove he can even do that. The Bears were one 36-yard run from Swift away from finishing below four yards per carry for the fourth straight week. The point isn’t whether or not the Bears can win games, it’s whether we want Bears on our fantasy teams. We don’t.
Cincinnati drafted Burrow and they drafted his best college receiver. If they could have, they would have just kept taking these LSU guys. They arguably should have taken Brian Thomas over Amarius Mims, but I get that Burrow was getting killed. I wouldn’t say Cincy has found its running game. Carolina was playing without their three best run defenders on Sunday. BUT Cincinnati is trying to find their run game, and improving the run game also protects the QB.
Cleveland sucks. But when Nick Chubb’s first game back is Jameis’s first game as a starter, everyone who held onto their Brown is going to feel so relieved.
Dallas somehow miraculously didn’t screw up Dak Prescott. Most of their recent moves seems intent on his personal failure, but for the beginning of his career, they did a good job adding talent every year. They drafted Zeke, traded for Amari Cooper, drafted Tony Pollard, kept the o-line churning, figured out the defense. Now they’re just like, hope you and CeeDee are enjoying being the only guys on offense making any money.
Denver did some stuff to try and figure out QB. You have to believe they thought they had Rodgers in the bag when they hired Nathaniel Hackett. There’s just no other way they do that. Seattle did a good job disguising how much of a diva Russell Wilson actually is. You can’t blame Denver for making a move for a QB with Russ’s resume. You had to give Payton a year with him to see if Hackett was the issue. It’s messy, but it seems like they stayed the course as long as it was the best course and the literally instant a better course came along, they cut straight through four lanes of traffic to make that exit. Bo Nix is fine. He does what Sean Payton tells him to do, and he’s winning games against good defenses. The Broncos built this thing up pretty well with limited resources. They have a semblance of a running game, they have a legit #1 WR in Sutton, and they brought in Josh Reynolds as a legit #2. These aren’t superstars, but they are veteran playmakers who understand leverage and create easy throws for Nix. It’s good enough that we can have Javonte, Sutton, and even Reynolds on our benches without feeling embarrassed.
Detroit is staying the course, but in staying the course, they are losing efficiency. They are doling it out evenly to the top two RBs and WRs, but the pie is smaller than it was last year, probably because defenses are better prepared to disrupt the timing of the pass attack. They are sort of stuck doing what Jared Goff is good at, and we’re witnessing the inevitable regression that comes with doing that for a third straight season. Goff’s third year with McVay was the beginning of the end of that relationship.
Green Bay did it again, and if Jordan Love were ten years older, they’d be doing it again with Malik Willis. This offense is just so good for QBs. All the movement just forces the defense into too many split-second decisions. Eventually, guys are going to be running open all over the place.
Houston did last year what the Falcons are (sort of) doing this year. They brought in as many 49ers coaches they could, and they created their own version of that thing. They realized they needed an upgrade at WR2 (sorry, Spe), and they traded for Diggs. They needed a bell-cow RB, they got Mixon. I tend to believe that Slowik doesn’t draw this offense up as well as the rest of this Shanahan coaching tree, but Stroud, Nico, and Diggs are so good that it doesn’t matter. That fucking run by Diggs for the TD, are you kidding me?
Indianapolis has good infrastructure, sort of. Their owner is problematic, but part of what makes him problematic is that he’s a drug addict, and part of the benefit of having an owner who’s a drug addict is that he’s often out of the office, so the GM kind of runs the show, and he hired a great head coach in Shane Steichen. It’s hard to imagine Anthony Richardson stays healthy enough to be actually good fantasy, and it definitely doesn’t seem like he’s good for the Colts’ receivers. Richardson will either rot on Shelby’s bench or someone will buy the dip and get a few spike weeks down the road, possibly also on the bench, though. But the Colts did everything right. They drafted a raw QB with insane tools who just needed more live reps, and the only failure of the plan is the QB can’t stay healthy enough to take the live reps he needs in order to develop. But knowing this, and coming from the Doug Pederson coaching tree, they signed a backup QB who can come in cold and keep the game on the rails.
Jacksonville is a mess. The owner, the GM, Urban Meyer, Press Taylor (iykyk), all of it is bad. Doug Pederson is probably a decent coach, but let’s look back at his Philly years as a time when he had the best GM and the best o-line in the NFL. He now has the worst GM and a bottom-five o-line. I would sell Brian Thomas, but it’s starting to look like Trevor understands, oh, this guy is my only chance to escape this mesh prison (mesh is a concept that relies on short, intersecting crossing patterns to free up literally three yard completions but with the small chance that there is room to run after the catch; it works twice and then it’s unsustainable trash).
Kansas City, we get it, yeah? And they tried to build the deep-passing game back up. And they don’t need to be good on offense. They are good on defense. They need to be smart on offense. Carson Steele fumbled and then they took him out back and shot him. At 4-0 with that great defense, they have zero pressure. If Rice’s injury is serious, they’ll probably just trade for a WR anyway.
Las Vegas, I’m pretty sure, is tanking, while also building up the offense for the QB of the future. So far, so good. Kinda sucks they beat the Ravens and Browns, two games I’m sure the owner and GM expected to lose.
Justin Herbert as already had, like, seven offensive coordinators, and while Harbaugh is the best one, Herbert is damaged goods and will need this whole year to get his mind flipped over to this new offense, hopefully with the assurance that this will be his offense for at least four more years, which is why the Chargers are okay having him play through injury.
The Rams almost figured it out against a really good Bears defense. It’s clear their plan is working. The injuries are inevitable, but to have five or six pile up together to start the season is extremely rare. I get why people rushed out to get the Rams’ weapons, but I think we all see the chicken salad for what it really is now.
Miami messed up Tua, couldn’t get Brady, somehow managed to nail their head coaching hire, and then they let the training staff ruin Tua anyway. And they clearly had a terrible backup plan. They are heading into Week 4 starting a QB who wasn’t on the team until after Week 2. However, it’s the right kind of QB. It’s a dual-threaty guy who started his career in a good place. It could honestly be the scam of the century, Huntley breaking the pocket and chucking bombs, providing a high floor with some scrambles.
Minnesota’s offense is just perfect. I’m in literal awe of what Sam Darnold is doing and how good everyone on this offense looks. And the JJ McCarthy backup plan was a legitimate backup plan! Good franchise! Good for fantasy!
New England is, um, in the part of the change cycle where things are not so good. They are a run-first team, but they won’t commit to the run, and then they’re down by 20 and they can’t afford to run. So they’ll just keep losing. Draft Kelvin Banks or Will Campbell. Start Maye behind a semblance of an o-line. Everyone thinks they’ll start Maye when the schedule lightens up in Week 11, when they’re probably out of the chase anyway. It’s not a good situation even with Maye.
New Orleans brought in one coach from each of the five best offenses in the league last year, so they cooked up this Jambalaya that nobody was ready for in Weeks 1 and 2, but these more veteran DCs with success against the main scheme of the Saints’ offense, these more veterans DCs appear to have given their guys a good sense of where the keys to this offense are, and a big one is probably keying in on what Derek Carr can’t do and forcing him there. It’s the same thing defense tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to do to Brock Purdy, but Carr is no Brock Purdy.
The Giants showed us via Hard Knocks that Brian Daboll preferred to resign Tyrod Taylor as Daniel Jones’ backup, but then the Giants couldn’t match the Jets’ offer because they were dedicating too much money to Motor Singletary to lead this backfield, so they settled for Drew Lock as their backup and it looks like very soon they will be settling for Drew Lock as their starter. Daboll has actually called the offense well, and I’d be surprised if he got fired for this mess. I think Hard Knocks exposed Joe Schoen as a Peter principle fraud, and they’ll let Daboll keep cooking with a new QB next year.
The Jets let Aaron Rodgers call the shots, and Aaron Rodgers called 42 pass plays to 23 run plays against the best pass defense in the league. Rodgers got sacked five times. Garrett Wilson, Tyler Conklin, and Allen Lazard each had the same number of targets. Run the ball already.
Philadelphia traded for Kenny Pickett this offseason to backup Jalen Hurts, and I’m not saying it could happen, but… nah, just kidding. Hurts had a rough stat line against the Bucs, but that’s gonna be pretty rare gamescript for the Eagles, who should get AJB, DeVonta, and Lane Johnson back in a week or two. They’ll start rolling again.
Pittsburgh scammed their way to another franchise QB. Arthur stumbled into the next Ryan Tannehill (fondly), and the backup plan is let Russ hand the ball off. And they kicked Pickett out of town early before he became another Mason Rudolph. Perfection. They’re all the way back.
San Francisco has the QB and backup QB situation all figured out, and the offense is pretty much operating at 2023 efficiency when the receivers are healthy.
Seattle wanted to draft Michael Penix to develop behind Geno, so when that didn’t work out, they traded for discount-Baker-clone Sam Howell. A solid, solid choice of young, promising backup, but they might not get to use him. Geno’s playing great, but it’s good to know the offense can probably keep humming with Howell.
Tampa Bay resurrected Baker Mayfield, and Baker Mayfield resurrected Tampa Bay. Okay, technically we were never dead, but we woulda been. If not for Baker, we would have probably drafted Will Levis? And had that happened, they still could have circled the square and brought Coen in to coach this offense this year. And if Coen gets a head-coaching offer, just keep cycling through the McVay guys. They’ll never run out of McVay guys. And if they do, get a Shanny guy, and if they ain’t got no Shanny guys, hire whoever is working for the guys who used to work for them.
Tennessee actually drafted Levis, but they didn’t pair him with a McVay guy, at least not directly. Brian Callahan worked for McVay guy Zac Taylor, but he’s also Bill Callahan’s son. Brian hired Bill to coach the o-line, which Bill has been doing in Cleveland for four years. Bucs fans regard Bill Callahan for coaching the Raiders in the wake of the Jon Gruden trade, so we can understand why Bill is no longer a head coach.
Washington, we covered. They drafted Daniels and brought in Mariota to back him up. They’re content to run the ball and complete short passes if that’s what it takes. But Daniels and McLaurin are already demanding more, and Kliff is listening. The Commanders hired players’ coaches, and so far it’s leading to very positive collaboration. That trouncing of Arizona must’ve felt so sweet for Kliff after he was the fall guy for their inability to run a team, like, at all for years before he even got there.
All right that’s what you needed to read today, I’m sure. Let’s do the recaps.
Oliver held onto three QBs through this week’s games. Caleb scored 12, Carr scored 8, and Herbert scored 13, so if you put them together they scored juuust less than Justin Fields. Who I started. Are people aware that I started Fields, and that he scored 33 points, and that he’s available for purchase if you have a 3rd rounder? I’m not sure if I’ve brought that up. For the second week in a row, my top scorer was straight outta free agency.
My big decision this week involved my flex spot. At one point, I was going to start Chuba Hubbard and four wide receivers (Evans, Shakir, Thomas, Lockett), and that is what I should have done. Instead, I started three RBs, and Brian Thomas scored six more points than the two of them combined. What can I say, I believe in the runningback renaissance. It’s probably more important to start good players, is what I’m learning the last two weeks. And starters. Guys who are good players and who start for their teams are probably better options than washed backup RBs. Noted.
But didja see, Chuba? DIDJA? (Also available for trade.)
Did you see Isaiah Likely outscored Mark Andrews again? Did you see him drop a wide open first down in the first half and then never get targeted again? I did. I saw it all. At one point, I was convinced Oliver added all these Saints just for the voodoo. On the drive before Andrews’ drop, Khalil Shakir rolled his ankle after gaining just eight yards, so I really thought my week was over right there and then. Luckily Shakir taped it up and caught a 50-yarder. If only he hadn’t had the taped ankle, he might even have made it the extra yard and a half to the endzone.
Oliver and I indeed tinkered with IDP, but only our DL spots. I would have had 1.5 more points just sticking with Mack. Oliver would have had two more points sticking with Rousseau, so… victory. Oliver’s IDP otherwise crushed it. Spillane continues to be an elite fantasy player.
Oliver would have won this one easily if he’d played Sutton over Allen, but he wouldn’t have won at all if he’d played Steele like I advised, so good on you for not taking the cheese.
There was a good long while where Ernest Jones was sitting on two fantasy points and I needed at least 4.5. Then as soon as I posted that 206 free agent IDPs had met that mark, Ernie got home for a TFL and eventually went on to be awarded credit for more stuff, all the way up to six glorious points. Aaand he’s on bye, so he’s dead to me. Love ya, Ern.
Two more: Oliver tinkered with kicker, and I did not. He got eight points from Boswell, but Koo would have gotten him 21. I got two from Prater, second worst only to Brayden Narveson (real person), who missed two kicks and cost the Packers the game. Seeing as Shelby had Narveson (why, tho), I could have picked up literally any other kicker and scored more points.
Mike Evans. Just gotta mention his name.
Shelby went all-in on the Bengals and it would’ve paid off in a melee week, but Brian is on a heater. When you add two IDPs right before kickoff and they combine for 40 points, you’re practically unbeatable. Shelby also made some solid adds, with Chase Brown and Alontae Taylor combining for 37. While Shelby is unlucky to have faced Brian, Brian is lucky he didn’t face Kennedy or Coleman. Other than the IDP explosion, I most enjoyed Pat Freiermuth’s slow burn to TE excellence. He’s sixth in TE scoring, trailing first by just 10 FP.
Jayden Daniels scored 30 FP for the third time in four games. Jonathan Taylor scored 20 for the third straight week. Diontae Johnson did what I thought he would when I drafted him (sigh), and Brian has a slew of WRs we should be trying to trade for. Jayden Reed is probably not available. In Jordan Love’s two starts, Reed has scored a combined 58 FP. But DK, Tee, and Drake London should be available if Coleman feels like he needs a better plan than starting Darnold, Jefferson, and Addison together next week.
Shelby is 0-4, but there’s no point actually giving up. Churn the bottom of the roster (Dortch and McLaughlin), spend that #2 waiver, make a trade or two to shake up the lineup. At the very least, make moves to maximize your lineup for Week 10, when you get chance a deal Sean a loss.
Stop reading and go trade for Kyler Murray before he gets hot again. I would do it myself, but I don’t think Sean wants to trade with me again this year.
It’s nice that Cameron won by enough that not even Brock Purdy would have saved Sean this week, but Purdy outscoring Kyler two weeks straight is going to force Sean to make a switch, which will be obvious anyway when he sees that the 49ers face the Cardinals next week. But then it will all come crashing down again when Purdy faces goes from whooping Arizona to getting whooped the Seahawks and Chiefs in back-to-back games. That’s when we pounce and trade for Purdy, too, leaving Sean with Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins for the rest of the year. We can do this, people. It’s not collusion if Sean the one accepting the trades that lead to his downfall.
It’s cool that Cameron got the win, but this team is starting to look rough. The 50-yard TDs to Lamb and Worthy did the heavy lifting, and Tony Pollard had 22 carries, including an eff you 4th and goal TD with 30 seconds left when the Titans were already winning by 12. Cam’s reserves are depleted. He can recover, but next week looks bleak.
Corey won a second straight game despite scoring 109 points and losing two more players to injury (and still having an empty roster spot). In a weird way, he’s gaining momentum. Michael Pittman and Terry McLaurin have bounced back. Singletary, Jakobi, and Mooney are showing strong floors. Bucky Irving has made the Bucs backfield a timeshare. Jared Goff was absolutely perfect on Monday night. Mahomes can’t do the Rashee Rice scam anymore and might actually start throwing downfield again. Jordyn Brooks displayed a 20+ point ceiling. If Corey scrapes together some IDP production and finally drops Zeke, who knows.
I would not have guessed a Josh Allen fantasy team would barely score 80 points in any game this season. 8 FP for Allen is his lowest since 2019 (excluding the Damar Hamlin game, and Evan will tell you all about how many points Allen was going to score in that one). Spencer’s whole situation is starting to look really gross. It’s hard to be optimistic anyway when your entire team hits their floor, but you were losing faith in some of these guys anyway. Spencer’s best three players appear to be Allen, Nabers, and Dobbins. Any of Garrett Wilson, Tank Dell, or Rome Odunze could have a big week, but their situations are such that you could easily see another week where they fail to combine for 10 points. And while you can stream IDPs for a weekly boost, you run the risk of getting fucking two total points out of two players like Spe did with his IDP streamers this week.
I don’t want to paint too dark a picture. Spencer did score 155 just last week, but his 132 and 136 from the weeks prior are starting to look more “real” than the week where Josh Allen scored 45 on his own.
Kennedy dropped 189 to lead the week and Coleman was right behind with 183. Kennedy won by 50, Coleman by 17. They are now the top two teams in Mortydome, with Coleman the last undefeated and thus the picker of our rivalry matchups (honors that Kennedy received after starting undefeated last season). After losing by 0.06 last week, Kennedy’s team came into this matchup hungry and mean. 60 from Stroud and Nico. 60 from the three Lions. 60 from the K and IDPs. And respectable little handfuls from Rhamondre and Ertz. Kennedy even left some points on the bench.
Evan also left points on the bench, but when you lose by 50, the extra 25 points on your bench can’t hurt you. And of course, even at 0-4, Evan’s a threat to win every week. He’s scoring respectable points despite dealing with injuries and leaving points on the bench. It’s only a matter of time until this thing clicks. I will not be surprised when Evan is 4-4 or 4-5, right in the playoff mix this time next month.
For the second week in a row, Max faced the top team and came up short. He’ll drop to 2-2 but still be third in scoring. That Walker-Jameson back-and-forth late Monday night was epic. The real tragedy was that this game should have been closer. Max had three IDPs leave their games early due to injury, and they were all playing well. Another 17 points from them in full games would have been very realistic. Max should be happy with Lamar and the RB Cerberus, but it’s fair to be disappointed with being in fifth place when you’re third in scoring. Bright side: you face Shelby next week.
Aside from the Super Bowls, I think my fondest Bucs memories are of trouncing the Eagles. I really enjoyed this win. I love it when every guy on the team seems to have a big play, and it was just one after another after another. Six sacks, two turnovers, massive Lavonte game… Grain of salt, this was a bad Eagles offense: no WRs, no Lane Johnson, but their defense was at full-strength, and we earned it on offense, chunk after chunk after chunk, nothing fluky, nothing broken, just winning the reps every time. Fantastic.
1. Dontayvion Wicks
2. STA-KC*
3. Josh Downs
4. Javonte Williams
5. Eric Kendricks
6. Tutu Atwell
7. Joe Flacco
8. Paulson Adebo
9. Taysom Hill
10. Jameis Winston
*unless morality is your thing
I’d like to write the preview note later in the week when I have more information, but it works better with my schedule to get it done by Thursday, so you’ll just have to bear with me getting shit totally wrong. Peace.
